On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 02:33:58PM +0100, Miguel Araujo Pirez wrote:
> I have a VIA EPIA running OpenBSD 4.6. Since I installed it, It has had kernel
> panics from time to time. I have it running pf in front of a test lab. Every
> time it hangs, I have to go to that location to restart it. I believe it 
> happens
> because of network load.
> 
> I know I can change OpenBSD to restart when it panics, but I will rather 
> debug 
> the panic and learn some OpenBSD on my way.
> 
> Last time It happened I got this message:
> pool_do_get(mcl9k):free list modified: page 0xd1bdf000;
> 
> I am not an expert user, but It looks like some memory is having trouble. I
> looked online and it said something about mbufs bad written. I am suspecting
> that I have some hardware issues, I guess related to network cards.
> 
> I have read man crash, man ddb and others. But I am not really sure how to
> proceed on this. I am not a kernel developer, so moving over the stack and
> memory using ddb will give me no clue about what is going on. 
> 
> Do you think if I post the trace and other information on the lists I will get
> any help? any recommendations?
> 

Please provide a full dmesg of your system. This report is pretty useless.
I have a few msk(4) that do the same but never figured out what the heck
goes wrong.

-- 
:wq Claudio

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